Chapter 614: Heavy Hammer
The power of this 320-millimeter heavy rocket in street battles even the Chinese generals in charge of the attack were dumbfounded, and the original range defects were no longer obvious in the city streets lined with buildings, but the warhead with a charge of more than 50 kilograms could easily tear apart any fortress. More importantly, this kind of vehicle-mounted rocket can accompany the infantry and combat vehicles to attack together, when the chariot guns, recoilless guns, and bazookas are all ineffective, the tracked vehicles with three rockets on the left and right will drive up from behind, and with a striking trajectory shooting, every obstacle will become slag.
However, in general, the attack of the First Army did not go well, and the Russian army defending the city was more than 100,000 men, and had a well-developed defense system, ample ammunition reserves, and a tenacious will to fight, and when these things were added, it became a fortress of steel.
Then it was the turn of the hammer, on the military airfield in Pavlodar, forty Liberator bombers were ready to go, and countless busy ground crews pushed huge bombs to the wing roots of the wings on both sides, and under each of them there was a special large pylon, enough to bear more than one and a half tons of weight, and the heavy bombs tailored for them were quickly hung on the planes, and then began to take off under the command of the control tower, flying to Kurgan, more than 800 kilometers away.
At this time, General Karekin was asking for help from Grand Duke Nicholas of Chelyabinsk, although the street fighting in Kurgan temporarily blocked the Chinese, but he also lost more than a quarter of his men, most of them died from shelling and bombing, especially the casualties caused by the bombardment have exceeded half, according to this situation, if he wants to hold out in Kurgan until the arrival of the snowstorm, I am afraid there is little hope without external support.
Although he was surprised by the number of losses on the front, but fortunately, Grand Duke Nicholas was also prepared for this, and one of his most elite cavalry corps plus a chariot brigade was immediately sent to Kurgan to contain the attack from the periphery, and as for his side, he had to be on guard against the Chinese Eleventh Army, which could attack Chelyabinsk at any time, but what he did not know was this. There is also a special unit on the battlefield of Kurgan waiting for his reinforcements.
Just as the Battle of Kurgan was kicking off, the First Armored Division led by Nie Xianfan had already crossed the upper reaches of the Bozhal River, and then bypassed Kurgan and inserted itself to the rear to prepare to play Wait for the Rabbit, and the steel torrent of a heavy chariot regiment plus two light chariot regiments would crush anyone who dared to harass Qin Cheng at any time.
After more than two hours of flight, the Liberator group finally arrived at Kurgan, looking at the city below in the fire and gunsmoke, the wing commander who commanded the bombing immediately contacted the headquarters of the First Army on the ground, and soon one after another orders were transmitted by radio from the headquarters to the attacking armies, and the eye-catching red smoke rose one after another at the most important points of the Russian defense, and the liberators who saw the smoke immediately dived down.
At this time, the air defense of the Russian army can be said to be gone. After all, those thunders and eagles have been bombed for a day, anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns are their key targets, and now the Russians can still use to resist air strikes, only light and heavy machine guns in the hands of infantry, this firepower is almost negligible for the huge liberators, ordinary bullets hit them is not much different from a mosquito bite, in order to pursue accuracy, these bombers even dropped their altitude to a few hundred meters, and then swept over the city like a dark cloud overhead, Just as it skimmed by. Giant bombs fell one after another.
As if the sky was cracking, the sound of explosions sounded in Kurkan one after another, and the terrifying power of more than six hundred kilograms of black suo gold and aluminum powder wiped out the surrounding qiē like the hand of a god, whether it was on the ground or underground, and the shock wave of the explosion spread violently to all sides like a boulder thrown on a calm pond. Everywhere they passed, the earth was trembling, and in the trembling, the underground bunkers near the explosion points collapsed one after another, and even the underground headquarters of the Russian army, which was hundreds of meters away from an explosion point, was affected. The cracks on the protective layer of reinforced concrete above the head are shocking.
"What's that?" General Karekin, who was on the phone, was so shocked that he almost fell to the ground, and he looked at his chief of staff in horror, and then rushed to the observation port. Having tasted this kind of bomb for the first time, they never thought that there would be such a terrifying weapon in the world, and the two of them lay on their stomachs in the narrow observation port, looking at the huge pillars of smoke rising outside.
Forty Liberators carried eighty such bombs, only ten were dropped in the first round, and then easily created ten uninhabited areas of nearly 1,000 square meters and ten huge craters that looked very conspicuous in the sky in the city of Kurgan, and the power of these bombs was not limited to this, they also easily destroyed the will of the Russian army, and those Russian soldiers who saw how they exploded no longer had the courage to resist to the death at the beginning, because these bombs had clearly told them that they had no hope.
And such explosions continued, as the liberators who circled the sky swooped down from time to time, one after another terrorist explosions continued to sound, at this time, not to mention those Russian soldiers, even Karekin and his group of generals, began to lose confidence in their mission, and now what can support them to continue fighting is the expectation of reinforcements.
At this time, in the small town of Shumiha, more than 100 kilometers away, the first large-scale tank duel between the Chinese and Russian armies was unfolding, and the Russian army reinforced from Chelyabinsk to Kurgan encountered a volley from the First Armored Division of the Chinese Army here. They were very clever and chose a light chariot regiment, but unfortunately even those Tiger chariots were not something that their Chinese-made Bobcat chariots could compete with, and the reason why Nie Xianfan dared to play a three-sided attack was of course not worried about this kind of problem.
After all, the Russians' tanks are also from a family, and he knows very well in terms of performance.
Just when the tanks on both sides were five hundred meters apart, they all stopped almost at the same time and then a tank gun spewed flames, and tungsten alloy armor-piercing shells roared towards each other, but unfortunately the next result made the Russians dumbfounded, the first round of firing they had more than thirty armor-piercing shells hit the target, but unfortunately none of them penetrated the opponent's front armor, and the Chinese on the opposite side had more than twenty hits, and then all of them were beaten into torches without exception.
Naturally, the three-seven artillery and the five-seven artillery cannot be compared, and the thirteen-ton tank and the twenty-ton tank cannot be compared.
Those grieving and angry Russian tank drivers desperately drove their steel beasts forward, while the Chinese tanks on the opposite side retreated at a slightly slower speed, and the two sides paused briefly from time to time in the process of advancing or retreating, and then one after another armor-piercing catapults were ejected, and the result was still like that, the Russians could not penetrate the front of the Chinese tanks, while the Chinese tanks could easily destroy the Russian tanks, at this time some smart people began to go around the flanks, hoping to attack the side with their speed advantage, But alas, at this time the attack of the other two tank regiments began.
The first to fire was the Dragon in the middle, and the first round of fire from the powerful seven or six mm tank guns destroyed more than a dozen Bobcats from nearly a thousand meters away, and even the turrets of the most ruthless ones were blown away by one shot, and just when the Dragon tanks fired, the Tigers of another regiment had also accelerated to a speed of nearly 50 kilometers per hour and circled behind the Russians, and then five or seven guns opened fire one after another.
At this time, the Russian tank brigade has lost more than half, and if it continues, there will only be a result of the annihilation of the whole army, and after understanding this, the Russian brigade commander had to order to flee north, trying to escape to more than ten kilometers away, using the advantage of the light weight of his tank to escape across the Mias River, but unfortunately, compared with his opponent, his Bobcat chariot has no advantage in speed, in fact, the fastest speed of the three chariots is fifty, which means that the Russians cannot distance themselves at all.
"Want to run? Now that you're here, don't even think about running. Nie Xianfan, who was lying on the turret of his command vehicle, said with a sneer.
"Division commander, the Russian cavalry has arrived." At this time, the signal corps reported to him.
On the left flank of the 1st Panzer Division, countless Cossack cavalry rushed up heroically waving their sabers like a tide, while mortars and light howitzers behind them were also hastily arranging their gun emplacements to bombard the Chinese tanks.
"It's coming, it's just right to come, order self-propelled artillery and rocket artillery to fire, let them see what fire coverage is." Looking at the spectacular scene in the telescope, Nie Xianfan said disdainfully.
After receiving his order, five kilometers behind the battlefield, those 120 mm self-propelled howitzers and 130 mm rocket launchers that had already adjusted their coordinates immediately roared, and the dense shells whistled through the sky, and then exploded in the middle of the Russian cavalry, and the shrapnel of the explosion was scattered and splashed in all directions, easily harvesting lives, especially rocket artillery, this terrifying weapon directly stunned the Cossacks, and forty nineteen-barreled rocket launchers poured more than 700 shells above their heads in an instant, The explosion was like a sea of fire, and they were heartbroken.
Unfortunately, this was only the beginning of their nightmare, as the artillery of the 1st Panzer Division opened fire, the self-propelled anti-aircraft machine guns used for air defense quietly fired, and the two Tiger Tank regiments that were pursuing the remnants of the Russian tanks also withdrew, and the claws of the steel beasts were all aimed at the poor Russian cavalry. (To be continued......)